Ihre Gäste und ihr Gespür für die Wiener Gesellschaft haben sie berühmt gemacht: Anna Sacher, legendäre Chefin des Hotel Sacher zur Zeit der Jahrhundertwende. Das Hotel wird zur Bühne, auf der sich alle begegnen: Kaiserin Sisi, Kronprinz Rudolf, Schnitzler, Klimt, Mahler, die Rothschilds und Wittgensteins. Die Geschichte eines außergewöhnlichen Lebens und zugleich ein Stück europäische...

From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka’s first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist opposed to fascism. A non-conformist, bi-sexual feminist, she was way ahead of her time. With the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, her home became a central meeting place for Jewish...

Hermann Göring (1893 - 1946), Reichsminister für Luftfahrt und zweiter Mann hinter Hitler, hat wie keine andere NS-Größe Ämter und Machtbefugnisse angehäuft. Andreas Molitor erzählt das Leben eines Machthungrigen, der Gegner kaltblütig ausschaltete, am Holocaust mitwirkte und – von Hitler kaltgestellt – ein bizarres Luxusleben führte. In szenischen Nahaufnahmen und analytisch auf dem aktuellen...

In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power and a remarkable lesson in what makes an...

Passport to Paris is a witty, pleasantly chatty, richly detailed memoir of a life in emigration and of a dual career in the ‘serious’ and ‘popular’ music worlds. It provides one of the most vivid and refreshingly buoyant accounts of the perilous exodus from the collapsed Russian Empire undertaken by some two million people during the late 1910s and early 1920s, and also includes rare intimate...

The World of Yesterday is Stefan Zweig’s hauntingly beautiful memoir of Europe before its fall — a moving portrait of art, culture, and humanism destroyed by war. Both a love letter and a farewell to a vanished world, The World of Yesterday remains one of the most powerful autobiographies of the twentieth century. Its themes — humanism, tolerance, the dangers of nationalism — are as urgent...